The Heart of Mid-Lothian

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Walter Scott

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In his introduction Tony Inglis discusses Scott's rich use of language and dialect and the novel's historical background, themes and narrative mode. Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid, decides she must walk to London to gain an audience with the Queen. Her sister is to be executed for infanticide and, while refusing to lie to help her case, Jeanie is desperate for a reprieve. Set in the 1730s in a Scotland uneasily united with England, The Heart of Mid-Lothian dramatizes different kinds of justice - that meted out by the Edinburgh mob in the lynching of Captain Porteous, and that encountered by a terrified young girl suspected of killing her baby. Based on an anonymous letter Scot received in 1817, this is the seventh and finest of Scott's 'Waverley' novels. It was an international bestseller and inspired succeeding novelists from Balzac to George Eliot.

Author Biography:

Edited with an introduction and notes by Tony Inglis

Release date Australia

August 25th, 1994

Author

Walter Scott

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Edited by Tony Inglis
Introduction by Tony Inglis
Notes by Tony Inglis

Pages

864

Dimensions

129x198x49

ISBN-13

9780140431292

Product ID

1743415

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